Hours after US medical technology giant Stryker, a hacking group linked to Iran claimed responsibility, saying it had wiped 200,000 systems and extracted 50 terabytes of data. The hacker group said the cyber attack was carried out in retaliation for military attacks on Iran.
In his statement, Handala also mentioned the US missile attack on a girls’ school in the Middle Eastern city of Minab, which killed dozens of people, as one of the reasons for the hacking.
“The Zionist-rooted Stryker Corporation, one of the key arms of the global Zionist lobby and the central ring in the ‘New Epstein’ chain, has been dealt an unprecedented blow. In this operation, more than 20,000 systems, servers and mobile devices were wiped and, according to a viral statement, 50 terabytes of critical data were extracted,” the statement read.
Handala declared a “complete success” and said “Our major cyber operation was conducted with complete success” as he described the cyber attack as retaliation for the “brutal attack” on the Minab school and for “ongoing cyber attacks on the Axis Resistance infrastructure”.
“A New Chapter in Cyber War”
Handala also said the cyber attack shut down Stryker offices in 79 countries. It stated that all the data they obtained was now in the hands of “the free people of the world”.
“Stryker offices in 79 countries have been forced to close. All the data obtained is now in the hands of the free people of the world, ready to be used for the true advancement of humanity and the exposure of injustice and corruption,” it said.
She issued an open warning to what she described as “Zionist leaders and their lobby”, adding: “This is only the beginning of a new chapter in cyber warfare.
The Handala group later announced it had also carried out an attack on Verifone, which specializes in electronic and point-of-sale payments, AFP reported.
Cyber attack on Stryker
Shares of the medical equipment maker fell about 3 percent after a cyber attack on Stryker led to a global outage of its systems.
Company employees later said the Iran-linked group’s logo appeared on the login pages of all systems, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The ring, which has been linked to Iran, emerged around 2022 and has claimed a series of attacks on Israeli and Gulf companies in recent weeks.
According to the paper, the company’s internal announcement described a “serious, global breach in the Windows environment that impacted both client devices and servers” and said Stryker had hired Microsoft to help with the investigation.
